Free Simulation Model of PCI Express IP Core - CAST

CAST announced a free simulation model of  PCI Express IP core.  The PCIe Core Backend Model (CBM) Demo of the CAST CPXP-EP PCI Express Endpoint Controller allows a designer to simulate a system with the core at the transaction layer level. The PCIe CBM Demo is free to qualified designers after online registration. Prepared test cases and scripts and an included design example illustrate the features and functions of a PCIe endpoint controller, and multiple parameters and the ability to program a custom application facilitate experimentation with and learning of this popular interface technology.

CAST also revealed details of a DAC demonstration and promotion for its APS 32-bit processor cores. The APS 32-bit processor cores includes high-performance processors aimed at 8051 upgrade applications, plus a recently-announced DSP coprocessor.

CAST is exhibiting in booth 5363 at DAC in San Diego. Attendees who stop by CAST's DAC booth to learn more about APS and get a demo can try their hand at an amusing slot machine controller application of the APS3 processor core. Those with a winning pull of the virtual lever will receive an Apple iPod Shuffle in the color of their choice.

Qualified designers can get CAST’s PCIe Core Backend Model for free. This package has everything you need to simulate a complete system using our Endpoint Controller core (in Verilog, for ModelSim). Run the included Test Cases and Design Example, or write your own system code, and learn more about PCI Express at the critical transaction packet level.

Source: CAST, Inc.